Law enforcement responded to the area of the Colorado Capitol on Aug. 15, 2013, to investigate reports of shots fired. (Craig F. Walker, The Denver Post)

Denver police officedrs took this man into custody after reports of shots fired near the Colorado Capitol on Aug. 15, 2013. (Joey Bunch, The Denver Post)

Three people are in custody and a gun has been recovered after a shooting on Colfax Avenue between Broadway and Lincoln Street near the Colorado Capitol Thursday morning, a Denver police spokeswoman said.

No injuries were reported.

Witnesses described the incident as a "shootout" between two people, but police could not confirm that.

Police arrived at the Colorado Capitol on Aug. 15, 2013 in response to reports of shots fired. (Sadie Gurman, The Denver Post)

However, they were looking for footage from other cameras in the area.

Police earlier said the shots had been fired in Civic Center.

Police officers and state troopers surged into the area after the gunshots were fired during the noon hour.

Colfax Avenue is closed between Broadway and Lincoln Street.

Authorities placed the Colorado Capitol on lockdown for about 20 minutes, but the building has reopened.

One witness, Lauren Croucher, said she was eating lunch in Civic Center Park when she heard six gunshots.

Croucher said she saw people running away from the Capitol toward Lincoln Park. She said a group of children from a summer camp were eating lunch there at the time.

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A pair of school buses waited on the west side of Lincoln Park, about 100 yards from where the gunfire erupted. Adults herded children away from the swarming cruisers and officers on foot, as portions of the park were roped off with yellow caution tape.

A photography student at the Art Institute of Colorado, who would not give her name, said she was standing near the two men waiting for the bus.

She said the men were arguing, but not violently, when one walked to the middle of Colfax and pulled a gun from his waist band and started shooting. The other man also pulled a gun, but she's not sure he fired.

"I was running up the street, because I wasn't about to be around to see how it ended," she said.

She heard at least four shots.

About 20 minutes after the gunfire, a young man in long khaki shorts and a blue and black plaid shirt was led to a cruiser. A beige, cloth bag covered his hands, presumably to preserve the gunshot residue.

"Did you get the other guy?" he asked the officers as he leaned chest first against the cruiser, before he was put inside.

Witnesses said it happened quickly and seemed a miracle no one was hit.

"I ducked for cover," said Jeff Rivera, 18, who was walking toward the bus stop. "Then it was crazy. Some people ran, but most of the (people) just kind of stood there like it was TV."

Penny Dormand, 25, was walking east on Colfax when she saw the commotion.

"There were so many people nearby that could have been killed," said Dormand, an assistant in a nearby law office on the way to the food trucks in the park for lunch. "These fools didn't care that there were about 50 kids across the park, and they could have hit any one of them.

"Whoever did the shooting is lucky he won't spend the rest of his life in jail for killing somebody by accident."

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